Hardly TRP at all, yet............

[Keith Davis]

amen to that...

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:13 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> there's enough mediocrity to go around no matter where you are
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Kirn is a novelist, as you may know, covering this election as a writer
>> not like a journalist. I am not sending this to
>> start plist conversations on the election or OHIO, yet I bet, in the way
>> we do, it might and they will be better than some journalists'.
>>
>> I am sending it because the very novelistic judgment of "mediocrity"
>> reminds me like a knocking stick of TRP's take on OHIO, via
>> the Swiftian savaging of Columbus in that greater and greater book:
>> Against the Day. And, of course, Columbus has naming resonance
>> with the promise of America. Goodbye,Columbus (but I hope you come
>> through for this election. Again.)
>> **
>> *The New Republic (@tnr <https://twitter.com/tnr>)*
>> 11/5/12, 8:00 AM <https://twitter.com/tnr/status/265438354118684672>
>> . at walterkirn <https://twitter.com/@walterkirn> says the fact that #Ohio<http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#Ohio>,
>> the cradle of U.S. mediocrity, gets to pick the president is terrifying
>> bit.ly/SsPXxC <http://t.co/N7ZouPUm>
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>>
>
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